Thursday, July 16, 2009
Dieting monkeys live a longer healthier life.
Canto, left, a 27-year rhesus monkey, is on restricted diet while Owen, 29, is not.
A new study by a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin just released last week, claims that rhesus monkeys kept on a special restrictive diet called calorie restriction, which contains 30 percent fewer calories than usual, live a longer and healthier life than those on a normal diet. The results published in the journal Science, suggest that people could in principle, benefit from the same diet. When asked for her thoughts about the findings, Kristie Alley said: "Keep me out of it; I'm a human not a monkey."
For more, see NYTimes.comLabels: calorie restriction diet, dieting monkeys, healthier life, healty lifestyle, Journal Science, live longer., NYTimes.com, University of Wisconsin
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